Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of a game, see. You've already bought a $1,000,000 de Havilland private jetliner and a $600,000 yacht and a $305,000 diamond, and you" bank account shows more zeroes than a no-hitter. So what do you buy next? A whirlybird, that's what. The $500,000 French-made Alouette helicopter made a cute little present from Liz Taylor to Hubby Richard Burton. Then they hustled on up to Sotheby's in London, where Dickie knocked down a Picasso for $21,600 and Liz wigwagged the winning...
...court, stretching for volleys, scrambling for lobs, Shriver and Partner Robert Kelleher, president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, easily defeated their first-round opponents 6-2, 6-0. Next day, though, they were paired against Jaroslav Drobny and A. V. Martini, a couple of old hands at the game. "They really gave us a shellacking," wheezed Sarge. "But it was terrific...
...regularity. Yet when the seedings were announced for last week's 82nd All-England Tennis Championships, nine out of the top ten were pros. Tournament officials obviously assumed that professionals, by definition, are better players than amateurs, and that the pros would be at the top of their game for the first truly big open tournament. With two exceptions, they were wrong...
...Dreadfuls seem to be deliberately outrageous, it is because they are. The gimmick game is called "brand recall," and the ground rules dictate that the only ads that anybody remembers are the very good and the very bad. Pretty good does not count. Quick: Which airline promotes its baggage service by shipping its pitchman in a crate with his head sticking out? Everybody remembers greasy kid stuff, but what stuff is supposed to be superior? Which TV manufacturer, to prove that all its money has been poured into developing a better set, shows its board of directors in their undershirts...
...Faye swiftly identifies McQueen as Mr. Wrong, bird-dogs him around town, and eventually gains entree to his mansion. There ensues a ludicrously erotic chess game, out of Mae West by Tom Jones, which Faye wins. After the check comes the mating, visualized in some lurid camerawork that focuses so long on the stars' lips that they come to resemble two kissing gouramis in a tank...